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Update on our legislation

Our bill is scheduled to be heard on Feb 18th!!!!
The Indiana Midwifery Taskforce was founded December 21,1993 with the sole purpose of legalizing midwives in Indiana, and for the past 13 years we have been working on a midwifery licensure bill.  After all of those years, and an incalculable amount of work, we have been told that our bill will be [...]

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Hoosier Push for Midwives begins (again)

It’s that time again!

We are gearing up for our legislative session! We will be filing a licensure bill again this year, and we will not be successful without your help.  We will be contacting you all in the next few weeks and we will be asking you to make phone calls, write letters, and speak [...]

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Vote here- and it’s not political! :)

9 Months & Beyond, LLC offers a full doula services, lactation support and parenting education. We combine the best resources of a doula agency and pregnancy/ parenting boutique with a respectful, supportive community. From conception through the first years of parenting, we help birthing families through a range of counseling and educational services and products [...]

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Prodromal labor

Prodromal labor can be frustrating… some birth professionals will refer to it as pre-labor.  We do not want to call it false labor because even if the labor pattern does not become active labor or we do not see progress in the form of continued effacement and dilation, it is doing something!  My own experience [...]

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Pregnancy and breastfeeding correlates to reduced breast cancer risk

As early as 1700, Bernardino Ramazzini, the Italian founder of occupational medicine, recognised that there was one female occupation whose members were far more likely to die from breast cancer than any other – nuns.
Evidence for the protective effect of having children and breastfeeding has accumulated in the years since.
There have been debates over which [...]

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Women are strong

That quote I see frequently… “We have a secret in our culture… and it’s not that birth is painful.  It’s that women are strong.” (Laura Stavoe Harm).
Well, it’s TRUE!
I was honored to witness a mom VBAC last week.  The words that come to mind are Amazing, Beautiful, and Magnificient.  I choose to see the beauty [...]

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Midwife On A Mission

Beating the Odds
An 81 year-old grandmother runs one of the most successful birthing clinics in the nation in the city with the worst infant mortality rate.  Wyatt Andrews reports.
I particularly loved this:
“Do you think it boils down to just the time you spend with them,” Andrews asked Lubic.
“I think so,” she replied. “I’m convinced that’s [...]

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Expanding the Birthing Rights Conversation through Legal Scholarship

This definitely seems worthy of passing along!  Please do forward this information for the benefit of birthing mothers everywhere.
I am pleased to present the first-ever NAPW law student writing contests to expand the birthing rights conversation. Attached, you will find a more detailed description of the contests and how you or your organization can become [...]

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At Your Cervix

Have you heard about the At Your Cervix documentary? I think it sounds really interesting and would love to see it when it’s finished. The documentary has made it to the finals at IdeaBlob.com- please go and vote for it if you are interested in this subject! They will use the prize [...]

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